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UTIME(3P) POSIX Programmer's Manual UTIME(3P)
This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux
implementation of this interface may differ (consult the
corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or
the interface may not be implemented on Linux.
utime — set file access and modification times
#include <utime.h>
int utime(const char *path, const struct utimbuf *times);
The utime() function shall set the access and modification times of
the file named by the path argument.
If times is a null pointer, the access and modification times of the
file shall be set to the current time. The effective user ID of the
process shall match the owner of the file, or the process has write
permission to the file or has appropriate privileges, to use utime()
in this manner.
If times is not a null pointer, times shall be interpreted as a
pointer to a utimbuf structure and the access and modification times
shall be set to the values contained in the designated structure.
Only a process with the effective user ID equal to the user ID of the
file or a process with appropriate privileges may use utime() this
way.
The utimbuf structure is defined in the <utime.h> header. The times
in the structure utimbuf are measured in seconds since the Epoch.
Upon successful completion, the utime() function shall mark the last
file status change timestamp for update; see <sys/stat.h>.
Upon successful completion, 0 shall be returned. Otherwise, −1 shall
be returned and errno shall be set to indicate the error, and the
file times shall not be affected.
The utime() function shall fail if:
EACCES Search permission is denied by a component of the path prefix;
or the times argument is a null pointer and the effective user
ID of the process does not match the owner of the file, the
process does not have write permission for the file, and the
process does not have appropriate privileges.
ELOOP A loop exists in symbolic links encountered during resolution
of the path argument.
ENAMETOOLONG
The length of a component of a pathname is longer than
{NAME_MAX}.
ENOENT A component of path does not name an existing file or path is
an empty string.
ENOTDIR
A component of the path prefix names an existing file that is
neither a directory nor a symbolic link to a directory, or the
path argument contains at least one non-<slash> character and
ends with one or more trailing <slash> characters and the last
pathname component names an existing file that is neither a
directory nor a symbolic link to a directory.
EPERM The times argument is not a null pointer and the effective
user ID of the calling process does not match the owner of the
file and the calling process does not have appropriate
privileges.
EROFS The file system containing the file is read-only.
The utime() function may fail if:
ELOOP More than {SYMLOOP_MAX} symbolic links were encountered during
resolution of the path argument.
ENAMETOOLONG
The length of a pathname exceeds {PATH_MAX}, or pathname
resolution of a symbolic link produced an intermediate result
with a length that exceeds {PATH_MAX}.
The following sections are informative.
None.
Since the utimbuf structure only contains time_t variables and is not
accurate to fractions of a second, applications should use the
utimensat() function instead of the obsolescent utime() function.
The actime structure member must be present so that an application
may set it, even though an implementation may ignore it and not
change the last data access timestamp on the file. If an application
intends to leave one of the times of a file unchanged while changing
the other, it should use stat() or fstat() to retrieve the file's
st_atim and st_mtim parameters, set actime and modtime in the buffer,
and change one of them before making the utime() call.
The utime() function may be removed in a future version.
fstat(3p), fstatat(3p), futimens(3p)
The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2008, sys_stat.h(0p),
utime.h(0p)
Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form
from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition, Standard for Information
Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open
Group Base Specifications Issue 7, Copyright (C) 2013 by the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open
Group. (This is POSIX.1-2008 with the 2013 Technical Corrigendum 1
applied.) In the event of any discrepancy between this version and
the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and
The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original
Standard can be obtained online at http://www.unix.org/online.html .
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IEEE/The Open Group 2013 UTIME(3P)
Pages that refer to this page: time.h(0p), utime.h(0p), pax(1p), touch(1p), asctime(3p), clock(3p), ctime(3p), difftime(3p), fstatvfs(3p), futimens(3p), gmtime(3p), localtime(3p), mktime(3p), strftime(3p), time(3p)